My dad and me.

My dad once told me this : Son, when you grow up, all your best friends in life will come from your years in high school. I was still in primary school when he said this and I didn't understand what he was trying to tell me.

After finishing primary school, my dad gave me two choices to choose from, for my higher educations:

1. Chong Hwa Independent High School in KL
2. Hin Hwa Independent High School in Klang

Deep down inside, I really wanted to go to those government high schools, just like my uncles and aunties, just like my cousin brothers and sisters, and most important of all, just like my primary school's 'buddies', they were all going to the same high school!! Both Independent high schools accepted my applications (my dad's applications to be precise!) and both offered me hostel accommodations. Unwilling, I chose option 1, Chong Hwa Independent High School.

I was in the hostel for only a year. There were happy times and also not so happy times. From second year onwards, I had to wake up 5:30 every morning to catch the first bus from Subang Jaya to Kota Raya, and then from Kota Raya to Jalan Ipoh. Those dark, cold and sleepy mornings...the routine went on for the next three years untill I was in Senior Middle Two, my dad bought me my very own transport, a Suzuki scooter! My pride and joy at that time.

High school wasn't easy for me, but, like what my dad said, I made some really good, life long friends! I am proud to say that all you guys are 'priceless' to me. A couple of days ago, I had an MSN session with a friend I knew from Junior Middle One. We were quite close back then but sort of grew apart after Junior Middle One because he stayed in the better classes while I drop back to those 'naughty' classes. The distance grew as we got older, until almost twenty years later! On our first MSN session (typing message, not webcam),he wrote : 'Hello bro, how are you doing?'. I was so shock! He refers to me as 'BRO'?! I don't know what these three alphabets meant to him but they meant the world to me. During that MSN session, we 'click' right away. We just carried on from where we left it in 1988! We covered so many topics, yet not enough, even some very personal ones, no barriers at all. What a session, it was unbelievable!

I guess this is what my dad wanted for me from day one, to make some 'real' friends, some brothers and sisters! When my dad was in high school, he spent two years in a boarding school in Kuantan. Those friends he met in Kuantan are still his best friends today, they still organise annual gatherings, and my dad attended each and everyone on them, another 'unbelievable'. I envy them from the bottom of my heart.

I hope one day we will be able to be like them. At the mean time, I guess I will have to settle for 'gathering' in this blog!

同党

这一群大概是当年作恶多端的同党。你们认识当中多少个人呢？请把他们的名单呈上来吧！可以把名字说得最多的人，重重有赏!!谢谢大家合作！

P/S: 我想。。。我应该不会被寻仇吧！！（King，请安排保护证人组给我）哈哈！

通缉

通缉！！！头号危险人物！！

符国伟（化名老虎）/华人/身高。。。五尺三/籍贯不明/未婚（也许）
钟志光（化名马来仔）/华人（可能是马来人）/身高五尺七呱/籍贯不明/已婚（也许）

此二人于十多年前干下滔天大罪后失去踪影！各位兄弟姐妹，如果你们有他们的消息，请告知！
谢谢！

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Hello Everyone...

Hope all is well with you. I am Keat-Hau Cheong (张杰浩)… hope you still remember me :-)

I am delighted to see our high school friends started connecting to each other... it has been a long while since I have seen so many friends started reunion and sharing their story... I am moved by you all... just like "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" - Coldplay.

I came to Canada in 1997, it was for study purposes… but somehow ends up settled down in Canada, now I work and live in Calgary… As you may already know I am married to my beautiful wife - Helen (慧蕾) and we have a lovely daughter – Amber (晴妤) last year.

Throughout the six years in Chong Hwa, I crossed path with many friends, later become good friends, we grown up together, shared the ups and downs; looking back today, those piece and bit of memories are so precious and sweet, and I cheeriest those moment a lot. I don't think I have forgotten anybody who I knew before, but I may miss your name when I bump into you in KL. Honestly I missed you all. My physical look may look different from 15 year ago… But hey! I am still the same guy you know 15 year ago… I think ;-)

Stay connect and stay put everyone :-)

After reading this site, I found that our friend King has changed (in a positive way), you are more sentimental and sensitive than someone who I used to know before. I like you man! And Thanks for setting up this site.

Last, but not least, Many Many Congratulations to King and his wife for the breaking news… Soon you will be joining the daddy’s club… and share your new experience, I am happy for you :-)

Best regards
Keat-Hau

who is this?

hi...so so so sorry......im late!! said will post up for a times....now only do!!
Celene never changed isit? last time i was thinking she will be a bufalo if she keep on the body figure like tat....haha!! but, drop spec ler....now she become an elegant and smart lady!! tat's wat we call "gal big 18 change"!! :P

K-Session

At first, we are all very 'hamper", since never seen for so long mah..of course!

I guest, "how are u now?"..."where do u stay now".."where do u work now?"..."how's ur son/daughter/baby?"..."how old is he/she now?"....the very standard opening..

After going into the "K-mood", eveyone warm up, n start...chatting in a "smoky room"..very bad, the air circulation is very poor, the air cond not working well (not cold enough)i can say..talking more funs, start topics..like wendy, she sang in "Coco Lee's mood"..very sexy n very "hit"..Felicia, a good singer in that day also, very challenging songs...yet preform very well like.."回家by 順子"..
That day, mostly in "90-00"s mood", like "至少還有你﹐他不愛我﹐ 不拖不欠﹐你最珍貴﹐真情人﹐愛你愛到﹐可惜我是水瓶座, 曖昧﹐味道﹐﹐。。。etc
(no choice lah..become daddy n mummy alrady..seldom go out..! Yes, we need to organise more activities..to keep ourselves more updated..)

Another best singer, is our frd, Jim Lee, he sang "very saxy n very in-mood" also. Even only few songs for him, but he really enjoyed a lot..can tell from the photo..(uploaded in facebook)..for myself, hhmmm..very bad...need to practice more n more..Celene, yes..i guest, she is the "karaoke kaki"..since she sang all new songs leh..!

We celebrate Felicia and King's birthday as well. We bought an Ice-Cream Cake from Baskin. The cake is very delicious, but a bit too sweet (personal opinion)..This cake is special for u, King n felicia..(looks, felicia finished her slice so fast...hahahaha...)

End up, we (felicia, wendy, siew hon, Tze Joon n me) left abt 5pm. The rest still in the singing mood..

i think, this k-session is still considered good, even 2 of our frds are not joining us (Boon Tat n Sook Pei)..hopefully..we can have another meet up (could be the next meet up when Keat Hau is back to MY)..Celene is a good organizer, I believe she will arrange it again.. (feedback from others: better to have a good food restorant/hotel buffer for next time...the food served in K is very bad..)..

Ok, let's keep in touch..n login more into our blog!

:-)

Oops!

We have finally met!!!

We have finally met!! Total 9 of us, a small gathering in the Curve Red Box. 

All the "girls" have became mama and the "boys", actually only 2, have put on weight!! hahaha.. We celebrated Felicia belated birthday, and we would actually wanted to call King and wish him as well, but no one has his number, and I think the phone bill will be caused a lot as well..hehehe

Photo? no worries, will be posted by Weivein soon. Check it out. 

And thank you for Celene, she is a good organiser. Let's meet again next time with more people.

mulu-pinnacle

Hi friend, I just came back from hiking gunong api in mulu(Sarawak) to view the Pinnacle, wow it is a great and taught hike, but I really enjoy and once again I tell myself "I did it". From the ground to the low peak of gunong api is just 2.4km but this 2.4km already take me 3hrs to reach up there and 4hrs to get down, back to the base camp, it is so slippery all the way down. I came back to KL with all the "black green" mark on my leg especially my knee, and of corse, thanks to the leeches, let me bring back the itchi as souvenir, until now almost 2 weeks after still not recover yet, "great bite"!! After this hike, few more run waiting for me, mcdonald run 7km, siemen run 10km, addidas run 22.7km, shape run 10km all coming soon. Still thinking want to go Desaru(Johor) to do the triathlon relay or not on mid aug and the year end singapore marathon open for registration soon, got to think about it and nicely plan my timetable!!

Vote

wa...like that meh...i also got a lot of photos from u guys...remember when last year, we like to give others our personal photo? haha!! i post up one by one then!!

Celene will be the first!!

drop me a comment who vote my suggestion!!

Lets us hv a drink....cheersss !!!

Long time never see this face right ???
Is it more pretty ? hehehe !!! Just to show my latest face to ur guys. No more "男人婆 and 火鸡" already, now i'm a nice mama...hahaha.

Celene remind me back my last time baby love with Tan Lip Koon, really almost forgot this guy already, who still have his contact, maybe invite him to join us. 依然是朋友嘛!

Opps...forgot to thanks celene...coz of you i can post my blog here, at the same time also thanks Louie Ong, coz of him then i can search you at facebook, then invite me to join in this blogger....really thank you so much...muakssss !!!

Very Excited

I feel very excited that I can find some high school friends, who was really closed at that time, but totally lost contact after graduated. Especially Keff Chan, I was thinking about her in this 15 years when she totally disappeared, thinking about the funny memories we had in the high school with 聂少强 (The photo shown below), always talked about dirty jokes when we three together...





Another person who was very closed also at JM3(9), 秀芬...I remember she was dating with Lip Koon, and we always went out together watched movie, shopping....they were very sweet at that time..(Oops, sorry ya 秀芬, broadcast a bit of your old secret...hope you don't mind!!)

I'm really looking forward for the K gathering this Sunday, really worry that not enough time to chat and sing...hahaha!!

嗨! 朋友...还记得我是谁吗?

十几年不见, 还记得我是谁吗? 我就是姓赖的, 名秀芬咯! 真的很开心, 也没想到可以在 facebook里找回你们, 因为我十年来都很少上网, 更不会MSN 及BLOG, 只是工作及照顾孩子. 自从换了这份工才可以天天上网, 同时也学会了很多网络的知识.

就在这简单的告知一些有关我这十几年来的故事吧! 我就在1999年嫁了给他(KENNY), 一个大我九年的男人, 可能这就是缘分吧...嘻嘻! 二人世界了几年, 在2003年才诞下我的小可爱(女儿), 她叫婷玮. 很不小心的又在2004年尾时诞下那玩皮的小瓜(儿子), 他叫伟健.

然后呢? 当然是很勤力的赚钱养家咯! 有了两个小瓜, 真的负担很重, 钱不够用, 于是要MIL (家婆)来帮忙照顾. 唉! 真的相见容易, 相处难啊! 所以我已学会了...忍忍忍... 免得与她争吵.

很久没那么开心了, 可以在这里得知你们的消息, 还可以再次与你们聚会, 真的作梦也没想过有这么一天, 真真真真的好开心...哈哈哈哈哈! 很期待这星期天的聚会...到时见啦!!!

Missing People

hello Everybody,

Err...im so happy while celine find me and told me this blog. I was "disappear" for almost 15 years... hope u guys still remember me!!
Yes!! My chinese name already changed n my nick name also changed.
So, who can write out my "real name", i buy u a meal ya!!